Mist Ninja Anbu

Yichen using Mind's Eye to sense his surroundings but found no one else. So he began to study the seal in front of him.

Before long, Yichen made a judgment about the seal. This Anbu data room should not normally have an isolation seal set up. It is estimated that the Mist ninja, like the Iwa ninja, has a special Anbu on duty in rotation.

It's clear that this seal was set up rather hastily. Although the ninja who set up the seal was skilled, it wasn't meticulous enough, and Yichen easily found the flaw.

In no time at all, Yichen broke the seal.

Upon entering the archives, Yichen quickly surveyed the interior space.

This archive room wasn't very big, about the size of a small house. Yi Yichen understood that the archive room in Iwagakure was about the same size.

Because of the magical Sealing Scroll, every so often, people from Iwagakure would pack and seal certain documents and place them in the historical records area.

Therefore, the area with the most information in a ninja village is definitely the historical records section. It's not a large area, but it has a lot of stuff. Of course, most of that massive amount of information is outdated and useless.

Yichen's goal was these documents. In Yichen view, these things were more useful than anything else in the Mist Ninja Anbu headquarters.

He strode to the back of the archives and stood in front of a shelf-like object. With just a glance, Yichen knew this was what he was looking for, because the items here clearly hadn't been touched in a long time.

Yichen packed all the scrolls away and then took out some blank scrolls and put them back in their original places.

After thinking for a moment, Yichen set up a high-level seal around the shelf.

Having obtained what he wanted, Yichen was no longer in a hurry. He returned to the entrance, casually opened a few scrolls, and glanced at them briefly. Finding that the information inside was all from more than ten days ago, Yichen stopped looking at them.

After putting down the scroll and leaving the archives, Yichen turned around and set up an S-level seal at the entrance of the archives.

I'm now an elite member of the Mist Ninja Anbu, and this contains top-secret information about our Anbu. I can't let anyone with ill intentions take advantage of it.

After leaving the area where the archives were located, Yichen searched around again and found the Ninjutsu Room the Anbu, but unfortunately, it was empty.

Clearly, the ninja responsible for the safety of these Ninjutsu was more responsible than the one guarding the archives; he had already taken the items away.

Undeterred, Yichen wandered over to the Logistics Department again.

As Yichen walked, he using Mind's Eye perception to sense things. He spotted two Anbu standing guard at the entrance of the Logistics Department in the distance, and Yichen breathed a sigh of relief. Thankfully, the things here were still there.

The two people on duty at the entrance were just Chunin, Yichen didn't pay them any attention, walking straight towards them.

Yichen struck first, making a series of hand gestures at the two of them that he himself didn't understand.

The two men were taken aback. The one on the left tentatively asked, "Sir, is there anything you need?"

Yichen paused, his aura subtly shifting, as if ready to strike at any moment. "You don't recognize me? Are you new here? Which squad are you from? Didn't the guards instruct you before they started guarding this place?"

Sensing Yichen's imposing aura, the two men panicked. The one on the left spoke first, "My lord, please hear me out. The ninjas originally responsible for guarding the area were transferred by the Mizukage, and we are here on our own initiative."

"We are members of Toyo Squad. Our team leader and several other team leaders discussed it and decided to take turns sending people on duty. We are just responsible for registration."

"Our Toyo Squad isn't under the Captain Gui's command. Our captain is Sheng. We weren't personally assigned by Captain Sheng, so we couldn't understand your code, sir."

Faced with this formidable figure who seemed to have no bearing on his abilities and addressed them by the codename of a ninja of the same rank as their superior's superior, the two were extremely uneasy. They feared that they might be mistaken for infiltrators and killed simply because they were unaware of some rule.

Yichen paused for a moment, then said, "Are all the squads you take turns on duty under Sheng's command?"

"Sir, no, some of ours are Anbu Squad under Captain Sheng, and some are Anbu Squad led by Captain Jing."

Yichen thought for a moment, "Gui, Sheng, Jing, that's three. I wonder how many Anbu Captain there are in the Mist ninja. I need to find some time to carefully review the Mist Ninja Anbu's files, otherwise it'll be too easy to give myself away."

The archives were overflowing with stuff, and most of it was useless. Yichen simply didn't have the time to search through the scrolls for the information he needed.

"Grown ups."

"My code name is Qing!" Yichen glanced at the cautious member of the Anbu and said calmly.

"Lord Qing," the man visibly relaxed, because Yichen telling him his name meant he had also let go of his suspicions about them, "Do you want to collect something?"

Yichen shook his head and said, "I'm not in the same system as Sheng and the others. I don't have the secret code you use to communicate with each other."

After saying this, Yichen made a move to leave.

"Lord Qing, are you Anbu directly under the Mizukage?" The Anbu asked, Chunin somewhat nervous.

Everyone knows that the root cause of the recent chaos in Kirigakure is the Mizukage Karatachi Yagura. Otherwise, as members of the Anbu, they wouldn't have publicly declared neutrality and disobeyed the Mizukage's orders.

Yichen knew what he was worried about, but he was also curious about the words "directly subordinate Anbu" that the Yichen mentioned.

As the Tsuchikage, Yichen did not have any directly subordinate Anbu, but Yichen could form a Shadow Guard that only obeyed his orders. It's unclear whether the Kirigakure's directly subordinate Anbu and Shadow Guard in Mizukage are the same thing. Or perhaps this was an organization created by Karatachi Yagura himself.

"Let's test them one more time," Yichen thought. Since they were just two Chunin, it wouldn't matter if the test went wrong and he was exposed; silencing them wouldn't be too much trouble.

"I am indeed a direct Anbu of the Mizukage, but not a direct Anbu of the Fourth Hokage." Yichen said this with preparation in mind, ready to act immediately if the two showed the slightest sign of something amiss. If this organization did not exist before Karatachi Yagura, then Yichen would be exposed.

Fortunately, what Yichen feared didn't happen. The two men simply breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this. The man on the right said, "So Lord Qing is the Third Generation's direct subordinate in the Anbu."

As expected, this organization is a permanent institution in Kirigakure, Third Mizukage also has a directly subordinate Anbu. Perhaps I've found a cover to hide under.

Yichen considered the matter for a moment, then said, "I just returned from a mission outside the village and am investigating the truth behind what happened six days ago. Now that you know my identity, please cooperate with my investigation."

"Yes, Lord Qing." The two quickly replied.

"Give me a record of all the items that have been taken from the Anbu in the past ten days, and then tell me what information you have," Yichen instructed.

"Yes," the two replied, and then one of them went into the room to retrieve the record, while the other began to recount all the information he knew.

"Lord Qing, the battle six nights ago was more intense than the previous days, but our team didn't investigate. As far as I know, the first person to discover a ninja's death was a Chunin named Congyi."

"The ninja who was killed was a subordinate of the Mizukage. It is said that the person who killed him used the Ice Release of the Yuki Clan, but we have not seen the body."

The man spoke in great detail, telling Yichen everything he had heard secondhand.

After he finished speaking, the other person returned with a copy of the record.

Yichen took the record and memorized the code names of the Anbu Squad Leader mentioned above. Then he asked, "Where is that Congyi now? And where is the body of that dead ninja?"

Yichen appeared to be conducting a serious investigation.

After finding out where Congyi lived, Yichen had no more questions to ask.

Next, Yichen did something that left everyone speechless.

"You two, take a batch of materials for setting up the seal and come with me," Yichen instructed the two.

The two men were somewhat puzzled and asked, "Lord Qing, what are you going to do?"

Yichen said, "The Anbu headquarters is a highly confidential location in the village. Since there aren't many people left to guard it, I'll seal it away and reopen it after this turmoil has passed."

The two exchanged a glance, not daring to disobey Yichen's wishes. In any case, being able to escape from the current headquarters of the Anbu was not a bad thing for them.

Then Yichen began to seal off key areas of the Anbu one by one.

The Changing Room, Training Ground, Mission Distribution Area, archives room, and Ninjutsu Acquisition Room were all sealed off. Although Yichen had already sealed the archives room before, he did it again in front of the two of them this time.

"Next are the various Secret Passage. I'm going to Kentaro Izakaya. You guys take the materials to the other passages first, and come over after I've sealed them," Yichen said to the dozen or so Anbu in front of him.

Because of Yichen's clearing out, the dozen or so ninjas who were originally on duty at the Anbu headquarters were left with nothing to do and were directly conscripted by Yichen.

After saying that, without waiting for their reply, Yichen went directly to the passageway near Kentaro Izakaya.

After Yichen sealed the passage, he scanned the Anbu headquarters with his Sensory Ninjutsu. Sure enough, the dozen or so people had already taken the materials to other passage entrances.

"One, two, three... there are six more. That's quite a lot." Yichen smiled slightly.

After memorizing these six locations, Yichen deactivated his Sensory Ninjutsu and then went over to seal each of the six passageways.

After finishing, Yichen said, "Take the materials to the entrance first. I'll come and meet you after I seal the other passages."

Upon hearing this, the dozen or so people realized that the headquarters had other access points, which were probably beyond the reach of ninjas of their level.

The dozen or so people responded with a "yes" and then left immediately.

Yichen naturally didn't know if there were any other passages to the Anbu headquarters. He quietly followed the group to the vicinity of the entrance and then used his Mind's Eye and Sensory Ninjutsu to detect their steps as they walked out of the passage.

The entrance to the Anbu is definitely full of traps and mechanisms, so Yichen dares not venture in recklessly.

Fortunately, the barrier at the entrance of the Anbu only blocked external exploration and did not prevent the Yichen from entering.

Yichen quickly deduced the correct way to leave from the positions of those dozen or so people as they departed.

After waiting a while, Yichen also came out of the main gate.

Upon arriving at the entrance, Yichen took the materials from the dozen or so people and modified the existing barrier at the entrance, replacing the purely sensory barrier with a defensive one.